I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.